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...Lu
...Lu is the conventional label for the second of the three kings of Awan in the Sumerian King List, whose name is entirely broken in the manuscripts.
Açina
Açina, also known as Acina, was an Elamite rebel who declared himself king against Darius I in 522 BC and was handed over and killed.
Acropole texts
The Acropole texts are administrative and legal cuneiform tablets, mostly in Akkadian, excavated on the Susa acropolis in Iran from 1897 and dating chiefly to the Sukkalmah period.
Ada of Caria
Ada of Caria, sometimes called Ada I, was a fourth-century BC ruler of Caria who married her brother Idrieus, was displaced by Pixodarus, and was restored by Alexander the Great in 334 BC.
Agron of Lydia
Agron of Lydia is the legendary founder of the Heraclid dynasty, named by Herodotus as the first of the Heracleidai to become king of Sardis.
Ahhiyawa
Ahhiyawa (earlier Ahhiya) is a Late Bronze Age land known only from Hittite cuneiform texts, most often identified with the Mycenaean palatial states of Greece.
Ahhiyawa texts
The Ahhiyawa texts are about twenty-six Hittite tablets, written between the fifteenth and thirteenth centuries BC, that mention a land most scholars identify with the Mycenaean Greek world.
Aḫḫulla
Aḫḫulla, also written Aḫḫula, is a land of the Hittite Old Kingdom, attested only in the Proclamation of Telipinu among territories lost under King Ammuna around 1550 BC.
Ahšeri
Ahšeri, also known as Ahseri or Aksheri, was king of Mannea in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran in the mid-7th century BC, during the reigns of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal.
Alacahöyük bronze standards
The Alacahöyük bronze standards are 39 Hattian bronze objects from the royal tombs at Alacahöyük, Turkey, dating to about 2300–2000 BC and excavated in the 1930s.
Alaksandu
Alakšandu, also known as Alaksandu of Wilusa, was a Late Bronze Age king of Wilusa in western Anatolia who concluded a treaty with Muwatalli II around 1280 BC.
Alalakh tablets
The Alalakh tablets are two cuneiform archives excavated at Tell Atchana, ancient Alalakh, in Turkey, from the 18th or 17th and the 15th centuries BC, written chiefly in Akkadian.
Aleppo Treaty
The Aleppo Treaty is a Hittite state treaty, cataloged as CTH 75, issued by Mursili II for his nephew Talmi-Šarruma, king of Aleppo, in the 13th century BC.
Alluwamna
Alluwamna was a Hittite Great King of the Middle Kingdom who reigned around 1460 BC, probably the son-in-law and adoptive heir of King Telepinu, known from fragmentary cuneiform tablets found at Hattusa.
Alshe
Alshe (Alše) was a Hurrian land on the Upper Tigris in the 2nd millennium BC, known from the mid-14th-century BC treaty in which Šuppiluliuma I conquered it and gave it to Antaratli.
Alyattes
Alyattes of Lydia, also known as Alyattes (Lydian Walwet), was a king of Lydia in western Anatolia, father of Croesus, who expanded Lydia into an empire and issued the first electrum coins.
Alyattes' destruction of Smyrna
Alyattes' destruction of Smyrna was the capture and demolition of Old Smyrna by the Lydian king Alyattes around 600 BC, described by Herodotus and confirmed by excavation.
Amarna letter EA 19
Amarna letter EA 19 is a clay tablet letter from Tushratta, king of Mitanni, to Pharaoh Amenhotep III, written in Akkadian in the mid-14th century BC.
Amarna letters of Tushratta
The Amarna letters of Tushratta, or Letters of Tušratta, are cuneiform tablets (EA 17–29) recording the Mitanni king's marriage-alliance correspondence with pharaohs Amenhotep III and Akhenaten.
Ambaris
Ambaris, also known as Ambaris of Bit-Purutash, was a king of Tabal in central Anatolia, placed on his throne by Sargon II and deported to Assyria after rebelling in 713 BC.
Ammuna
Ammuna was a king of the Hittite Old Kingdom, dated around 1550–1530 BC, who succeeded Zidanta I and was succeeded by Huzziya I, whose accession followed the murder of Ammuna's probable sons and heirs.
Amytis (daughter of Astyages)
Amytis was, according to the Greek historian Ctesias, a daughter of Astyages, the last king of the Medes, and later a wife of Cyrus the Great.
Amytis of Media
Amytis of Media is a Median princess whom Berossus reports as the wife of Nebuchadnezzar II, married to seal the Median-Babylonian alliance after the capture of Aššur in 614 BC.
Anatolian hieroglyphs
Anatolian hieroglyphs, also called Luwian hieroglyphs or Hieroglyphic Luwian, are a mixed logo-syllabic script used mainly for the Luwian language from about 1420 to 700 BC.
Anitta (king of Kussara)
Anitta, also known as Anittas, was an Anatolian king of Kussara, son of Pithana, who conquered Nesa and destroyed Hattusa around 1730 BC and is known from the Anitta Text.
Anitta text
The Anitta text, also called the Anitta inscription, is the oldest known text in the Hittite language, narrating King Anitta's conquests, including his destruction of Hattusa around 1730 BC.
Annals of Hattusili I
The Annals of Hattusili I are an Old Hittite text, cataloged as CTH 4, recording year by year the campaigns of King Hattusili I around 1650 to 1620 BC.
Annals of Sarduri II
The Annals of Sarduri II, known as the Chronicle from Van, are a lengthy Urartian cuneiform inscription carved at the Van fortress recording King Sarduri II's yearly military campaigns.
Anniya
Anniya, also written Anniyas or Anniyash, was the last named king of Azzi-Hayasa in eastern Anatolia, defeated by the Hittite king Mursili II around 1321–1295 BC.
Anzaf fortress inscriptions
The Anzaf fortress inscriptions are Urartian royal cuneiform texts from the twin fortresses of Lower and Upper Anzaf near Van, Turkey, naming kings Išpuini and Minua.